Fact-checking President Trump's RNC acceptance speech - Entrepreneur Generations

CNN did not mince words in its fact-check of President Trump's speech yesterday at the Republican National Convention.

"President Donald Trump is a serial liar and he serially lied during his speech accepting the Republican nomination," Daniel Dale and others report. "CNN counted more than 20 false, exaggerated or misleading claims from Trump on Thursday night. That's in addition to a number of falsehoods from other speakers. Trump's dishonesty touched on a range of topics, from the economy to his administration's performance during the coronavirus pandemic. Some of Trump's most egregious false claims were directed at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden."

Here are some of what CNN's fact-checkers caught:

• Trump suggested Biden wants to remove the border wall, but Biden has specifically said he will not, and will only stop further construction.
• Trump said Biden's immigration plan calls for open borders. It does not.
• Trump said 300 miles of border wall has been built during his administration, but it's misleading to suggest that 300 miles of wall have been erected where no barriers existed before. About 275 miles of barriers had been built along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration, but only five of those miles were put up in areas where no previous barriers had existed.
• Trump claimed he had "very good information" that China wants Biden to win because Biden would help their agenda more. While CNN acknowledges it doesn't know what information Trump may have, a recent intelligence assessment reported that China wanted Trump to lose because he was "unpredictable" and because of the trade war.
• Biden opposes school choice and wants to close all charter schools, Trump claimed. The claim about charter schools is an exaggeration; the Democratic party platform recommends barring for-profit charters from receiving federal funding, but it doesn't call for abolishing all charter schools. The claim about school choice is debatable, since the phrase is so nebulous. Biden and his school task force oppose school vouchers for private schools, but he supports some alternatives to standard public schools.

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